{"id":7724,"date":"2026-09-02T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=7724"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:03:29","slug":"saig-social-academic-instructional-groups","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/glossary\/saig-social-academic-instructional-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"SAIG &#8211; Social Academic Instructional Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A SAIG is a small group of students, identified by data within a <a href=\"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/glossary\/mtss-multi-tiered-system-of-supports\/\">Tier 2 team<\/a> meeting, who receive additional skill instruction with opportunities to practice skills and apply them in the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Lincoln Public Schools, SAIG serves as a Tier 2 intervention designed to explicitly teach, model, and practice prosocial, behavior, and academic skills necessary to support teaching and learning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>SAIG directly aligns with the three core components of the <a href=\"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/glossary\/par-behavior-framework\/\">PAR (Prevention, Accountability, Restorative)<\/a> behavior framework. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SAIG also upholds the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) Core Competencies and the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) model.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Logistics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>SAIG sessions typically last 20-30 minutes, meeting weekly, with the intervention lasting 4-8 sessions\/weeks. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A SAIG should include 4-8 students, but may vary depending on the age of students, skills being taught, and dynamics between students. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Students remain in a SAIG until the Tier 2 team reviews data and decides if the student should maintain, layer up, or layer down from the intervention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SAIG is a small group of students, identified by data within a Tier 2 team meeting, who receive additional skill instruction with opportunities to practice skills and apply them in the classroom. In Lincoln Public Schools, SAIG serves as a Tier 2 intervention designed to explicitly teach, model, and practice prosocial, behavior, and academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","glossary-cat":[],"class_list":["post-7724","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"related_terms":"","external_url":"","internal_reference_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/7724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/7724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7739,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/7724\/revisions\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-cat?post=7724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}